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Kate Skolnick joined the Haub faculty in 2025. Prior to that, she was an Acting Assistant Professor in the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law, teaching first-year lawyering as well as a reading group on prison and police abolition.

For nearly a decade and a half before entering academia full-time, Professor Skolnick was a post-conviction public defender at the Center for Appellate Litigation ("CAL"), where she also taught in the Appellate Criminal Defense Clinic at Cornell Law School. At CAL, she litigated a range of cases, from direct appeals, to collateral attacks on convictions in state and federal court, to resentencing petitions, to Sex Offender Registration Act hearings. For her work in attempting to implement the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, a pioneering sentencing reform that has since expanded to other jurisdictions, she received the 2022 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Promoting Standards of Excellence in Mandated Representation from the New York State Bar Association. Before joining CAL full-time, Professor Skolnick worked as a research scholar at the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School, where she examined the institutional impact of programs supporting students moving from incarceration into post-secondary education.

Professor Skolnick�鶹��ý�s research and teaching focus on a critical examination of the criminal legal system, and in particular on unwinding mass incarceration while promoting the full participation in society of those affected by the carceral system. Her writing has appeared in the N.Y.U. Law Review.

Professor Skolnick received her BA from Stanford University, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa; and her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual, a self-help litigation resource for incarcerated persons. At Columbia, she received Kent and Stone Scholar designations and a Lowenstein Fellowship to pursue public interest work upon completing her degree.

• BA, Stanford University
• JD, Columbia University

• Criminal Law Law 621
• Criminal Procedure-Adjudication LAW 676

• A Second Look at Second Look: Avoiding Epistemic Harms in Discretionary Resentencing, 100 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming spring 2025)
• Building Pathways of Possibility from Criminal Justice to College: College Initiative as a Catalyst Linking Individual and Systemic Change (2011) (with Susan Sturm & Tina Wu)
• �鶹��ý�Special Issues for Prisoners with Mental Illness,�鶹��ý� in A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (8th ed. 2009)

• 2009 Lowenstein Fellowship, Columbia Law School

• 2022 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Promoting Standards of Excellence in Mandated Representation from the New York State Bar Association

Post-conviction and Appellate Practice, Abolition, Sentencing, Resentencing